Popoloca | |
Region: | Puebla, Mexico |
Date: | 2020 census |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Oto-Manguean |
Fam2: | Popolocan |
Fam3: | Chocho–Popoloca |
Glotto: | popo1294 |
Glottorefname: | Popolocan |
Child1: | Eastern |
Child2: | Central/Western |
Map: | Otomanguean Languages.png |
Mapcaption: | The Popoloca languages, number 6 (purple), center. |
Popoloca is an indigenous Mexican cluster of languages of the Popolocan branch of the Oto-Manguean language family, closely related to Mazatec. They are spoken by 17,000 people[1] in Puebla state, Mexico, near Tehuacán.
The Ethnologue distinguishes seven varieties of Popoloca as separate languages. However, these fall into four groups with 75% mutual intelligibility or greater.